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"We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army."
"Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author."
"A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man."
"I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else."
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"Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels."
"I am in suspense as to the probable or improbability of being called into the Army, a station I would prefer to any other that of being in arms to defend an injured and grossly insulted country."
Explore more quotes by Barney Oliver
"It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance."
"Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient."
"If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be."
"Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots."
"Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars."
"In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory."
"Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter."
"The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light."
"The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars."
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